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Originally Posted by
the_learner
the time taken by my program will increase right ?
Yes, no and maybe but not necessarily in that order
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1. You can adjust processes priority with nice.
2. A multi-user system shares it's resources, that's what they do.
3. Different architectures scale differently, some linearly, some exponentially.
4. A multiple CPU machine will exhibit different characteristics to a single CPU system.